This is inappropriate and all that, but really, these are all a bunch of horned up teenagers being dumbasses.Giving them criminal records, especially for things like 'child pornography' is not going to help them be productive members of society. In fact, it will pretty much guarantee that they'll not amount to much because when an employer sees 'child pron' they are not going to think 'nude selfie at 17 years of age'.

buzzcut73:This is inappropriate and all that, but really, these are all a bunch of horned up teenagers being dumbasses.Giving them criminal records, especially for things like 'child pornography' is not going to help them be productive members of society. In fact, it will pretty much guarantee that they'll not amount to much because when an employer sees 'child pron' they are not going to think 'nude selfie at 17 years of age'.

This is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to how mainstream this is in high school.

So farking stupid. Charging kids with criminal offenses for pictures of each other... I wonder how long before we grow up enough as a society to acknowledge how stupid this is. It is depressing how much we still are terrified of the perfectly normal human body and sexuality. Farking religious conservatives.

mongbiohazard:So farking stupid. Charging kids with criminal offenses for pictures of each other... I wonder how long before we grow up enough as a society to acknowledge how stupid this is. It is depressing how much we still are terrified of the perfectly normal human body and sexuality. Farking religious conservatives.

There are religious liberals as well. If your going to put something in a box at just say bible thumpers.

mongbiohazard:So farking stupid. Charging kids with criminal offenses for pictures of each other... I wonder how long before we grow up enough as a society to acknowledge how stupid this is. It is depressing how much we still are terrified of the perfectly normal human body and sexuality. Farking religious conservatives.

markfara:Why can't we, as a nation, deal with things like child pornography without completely going off the deep end?

The problem is that if this isn't a crime, then kids will be able to freely share the CP, and if they can freely share the CP, the server can have the CP, and if the server can legitimately have CP, the administrator can view the CP and no one can do anything about it, and next thing you know, perverts and predators will be viewing the CP.

Inroads against predators have only been made with aggressive attempts at controlling the sources of CP. That is incompatible with allowing minors that much leeway.

mongbiohazard:So farking stupid. Charging kids with criminal offenses for pictures of each other... I wonder how long before we grow up enough as a society to acknowledge how stupid this is. It is depressing how much we still are terrified of the perfectly normal human body and sexuality. Farking religious conservatives.

I know this may be hard to believe but there are millions of adults who are not religious conservatives who don't want their children sending naked pictures of themselves to other people

Contrabulous Flabtraption:mongbiohazard: So farking stupid. Charging kids with criminal offenses for pictures of each other... I wonder how long before we grow up enough as a society to acknowledge how stupid this is. It is depressing how much we still are terrified of the perfectly normal human body and sexuality. Farking religious conservatives.

I know this may be hard to believe but there are millions of adults who are not religious conservatives who don't want their children sending naked pictures of themselves to other people

Good luck with that. It's so prevalent that even what little off-hand comments I hear as a teacher are frightening.

The flip side is that all the stupid stuff you did as a teenager and in your twenties (often while drunk) didn't end up filmed on someones phone and uploaded to YouTube and beyond.

This. There would be no way I'd have ever gotten a job ever in my life, had cameras been as prolific back then, and had I a "blog" into which I described my exploits of that day.

If you wanted to see a girl naked, you either saw it in person or you could go buy a playboy if you wanted 2d versions.

Were the technology today been available when I was a kid... good lord - thank God very little was saved for posterity then. Heck - the parents' ability to check their child's grade and homework throughout the year would have made my life a living hell.

But the problem is, Guy A is going to look at a picture and consider how the girl is posed, the lighting, the contrast and whatnot. Meanwhile, next door, Guy B happens by coincidence to look at the same picture, and he immediately yanks his pants down and goes to work on himself like one of those machines at the hardware store that shake up paint cans.

But the problem is, Guy A is going to look at a picture and consider how the girl is posed, the lighting, the contrast and whatnot. Meanwhile, next door, Guy B happens by coincidence to look at the same picture, and he immediately yanks his pants down and goes to work on himself like one of those machines at the hardware store that shake up paint cans.

But the problem is, Guy A is going to look at a picture and consider how the girl is posed, the lighting, the contrast and whatnot. Meanwhile, next door, Guy B happens by coincidence to look at the same picture, and he immediately yanks his pants down and goes to work on himself like one of those machines at the hardware store that shake up paint cans.

I'm sorry. I'm just trying to think how rich and powerful a self-made plutocrat has to be in the future to say, "Yes, I made a nude selfie of myself when I was underaged. And I'm not going anywhere, so fark you and do what I say, because money."

Is there a particular reason why we never care to distinguish between the teen that initially takes and sends the selfie to someone with an expectation of privacy (however practically "stupid" that may be) and then the countless little shiats that circulate the picture? Even if they shouldn't necessarily be charged with separate types of crimes (if one gets all hot and bothered about equal application of the law above all else), why should they be treated the same for purposes of discussion?